Our condolences go out to the family of Junpei Takiguchi. AnimeNews Network reported his passing this morning. He was known for his voice work in Yattaman as Dottor Dokrobei and his numerous other works. Thank you for all you gave us.
More CrossGen Titles Coming from Marvel
Marvel’s site has announced that it will have two more CrossGen mini-series. The first will be Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, written by Peter Milligan with art by Ramon Rasanas. The second is Route 666, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa with art by Peter Nguyen. Each title will be a four issue mini-series with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang coming out in December and Route 666 scheduled to come out in 2012. Follow each link for the respective stories.
http://marvel.com/news/story/16549/fan_expo_canada_2011_kiss_kiss_bang_bang
http://marvel.com/news/story/16550/fan_expo_canada_2011_route_666
Don’t be Afraid of the Dark …
Catsuka’s Tribute to Satoshi Kon
The website Catsuka has posted “A Tribute to Satoshi Kon”, a well known movie/anime director, on-line. The tribute contains photos of a variety of artists paying homage to Satoshi Kon. This is a French website, but they do have an English link which is linked below. I have also provide the French and Japanese links as well. Your library’s anime fans will like to view this and it will give you some talking points with them. Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the heads up and to all involved in the tribute great job one and all.
http://www.catsuka.com/satoshikon/en/
Colombiana Opens This Weekend
Tiger & Bunny Trailer
Tiger and Bunny has been simulcasting on YouTube’s VizMedia Channel. It has been getting good reviews from the people I’ve talked to about it and what I have read about it. This might be one to put on your purchase order for when the complete season becomes available to purchase for your library. Thanks to vizmedia and YouTube for providing the trailer below.
The Clone Wars Season 4 Trailer
Things Get Ugly
ICv2 is reporting that Del Rey Books has acquired the rights to produce graphic novels set in the world of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies. Westerfeld is set to co-write the stories with Devin Grayson. It is also mentioned that the property is in development for a live action movie.
AMV of the Week
Our AMV of the week comes from YouTuber miraclefalcon. The music for the video is “Letting Go” performed by Linkin Park and the animation is from Angel Beats. Miraclefalcon states that this video was a finalist at the Otakon 2011 and Katsucon 2011 contests. After watching the AMV I can see why. The editing is very nicely done and I especially like the drum beat cuts it has in the latter part of the video. You can go to YouTube to watch the video under the tag “Letting Go: An Angel Beats AMV” or check it out below. Great job miraclefalcon!
New Company Testing the Waters
ICv2 reports that Innovation Network Corp. of Japan (INCJ) is funding a new Japanese entertainment company. The company is All Nippon Entertainment Works and is scheduled to launch in October. The company will have it’s fingers in films, TV shows, novels, manga, and other aspects of entertainment. Hopefully this company might pick up some of the slack that was left when TokyoPop left North America.